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‘Job, jobs, jobs’: Premier Palaszczuk’s new catch cry

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has donned her well worn hard-hat and hi-viz, blitzing three Townsville work sites in less than hour - in a tour-de-jobs - the surest sign yet her campaign reset is focusing on highlighting Labor's employment record.

Journalists following the campaign were issued with the required PPE (personal protective equipment) and made to disembark the bus at all three locations to observe the progress of a road, a stadium and port expansion and then preferably reporting, across various media platforms, on the jobs created by their construction.

The tour came complete with a handy reference sheet of projects underway in Townsville and the relevant positions created.

"Jobs, jobs, jobs", isn't a very original or particularly clever slogan, but it seems to be the one adopted by Ms Palaszczuk's team for the run home to the November 25 election.

"Everything that motivates me is about getting people into work," the premier stated to media.

In Townsville, this renewed emphasis on jobs is important following the disaster of the Adani veto saga. Whether or not Ms Palaszczuk's decision to seek to block federal funding to the Indian company will ultimately jeopardise the coal mine project, her move is being used by the Liberal National party to scare local voters into the view that re-electing Labor will cost the region 10,000 jobs.

To combat this, the Premier and her ministers have gone on the job-offensive. At all opportunities Ms Palaszczuk now recites job creation figures, followed up immediately by a history lesson on the public sector job cuts perpetuated by her predecessor, five years ago.

The Labor campaign team have clearly decided their record stands up against their opponents and is a selling point, that as yet, hasn't been sold well.

Even Minister Coralee O'Rouke conceded people may not be aware of the achievements of the Government in the region.

"I've had a lot of conversations on the ground and on the phone with voters and to be honest I think there is sometimes ... an uncertainty about what has been done," Ms O'Rourke said.

The Mundingburra MP needs voters to be aware as she's fighting a re-elction battle on two fronts. A resurgent One Nation poses a risk to her, with a flow on affect that could hand the seat to the LNP.

This same issue faces Labor MPs in all Townsville seats and other throughout regional Queensland.

The Adani mine represents job hopes for many who are struggling to find employment. A perceived threat to the project is a threat to the election hopes of the incumbent Government.

The task ahead of Ms Palaszczuk for the next two weeks is to nullify the bad press over her handling of the Adani issue by redirecting attention to the jobs "bonanza" she has overseen and the creation of new jobs her reelection would bring.